Michael Sandle In De Beauvoir Place, 2019

This charcoal self-portrait by British sculptor Michael Sandle shows the artist mid-sketch in his local Dalston. 

Sandle studied at Douglas School of Art and Technology, Isle of Man, from 1951 to 1954 and studied  Painting and Printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1956 to 1959 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1994, and Royal Academician in 1989 and a Senior Royal Academician in 2011. Significant commissions include the Seafarer's Memorial, 2001 for the International Maritime Organisation, on Albert Embankment London, Memorial to the victims of a Helicopter Disaster,1988, Mannheim, Germany; St George and the Dragon, 1988, London, and The Malta Siege- Bell Memorial, 1992, Grand Harbour Valletta, Malta. Sandle has exhibited widely internationally and in the UK had major solo exhibitions at amongst others, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Imperial War Museum, London; and Tate Liverpool. His work is held in the numerous collections including, the British Museum, London; Tate, London; Dallas Museum of Art, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.